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Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov is a well-known politician, diplomat, former prime minister, head of the Foreign Ministry and intelligence service, speaker of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.

He was an academician, a statesman who earned a reputation as an unshakable defender of the interests of the Russian Federation, a pragmatic and respected diplomat in the state and abroad, a large-scale personality with an inner core from a unique generation of the Soviet and post-Soviet era, which became a reflection of the country's history.

Primakov's most striking and well-known political decision was the cancellation of his 1999 visit to Washington, which took place right in the air during a flight over the Atlantic. Having received information about the intention of the North Atlantic military bloc to bomb Yugoslavia, he decided to return immediately.

The childhood of Evgeny Primakov

One of the most influential people of the state was born on October 29, 1929 in Kyiv, the capital of the Ukrainian SSR. His real name is Ion Finkelstein. His mother is a gynecologist. The politician did not know his father. In the thirties, he was repressed and disappeared in one of the Gulag camps. According to official data, the politician's mother is Jewish, and her father is Russian.


The politician grew up in Tbilisi, where his mother's relatives lived, and where she moved 2 years after his birth. After graduating from seven classes, he entered the military school (BVMPU) in Baku, created on the basis of the naval special school. In 1946, the young man was expelled from the cadets due to pulmonary tuberculosis.

Returning to Georgia and graduating from school in 1948, he entered the capital's Institute of Oriental Studies. In 1953, he became a certified specialist in the Arab states and continued his education in the postgraduate course of the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University.

The beginning of the career of Yevgeny Primakov

Since 1956, he began working as a journalist for the All-Union Radio, holding posts from a correspondent to the editorial head of radio broadcasting to foreign countries of the State Committee for Cultural Relations.


At the age of 33, Primakov began working as an international columnist for the Pravda newspaper, and from 1965 as a Middle Eastern correspondent for this tabloid. While living in Egypt, he performed responsible tasks of the Central Committee of the party, met with the leadership of Iraq (Saddam Hussein, Tariq Aziza), the Kurdish military Mustafa Barzani, the leader of Palestine Yasser Arafat, with the Syrian leader of the Arab Renaissance Party Yu. President Jafar Mohammed Nimeiri.

According to the British media, at that time Primakov was not so much engaged in journalism as he was carrying out an intelligence mission, being a KGB agent and working under the pseudonym "Maxim".

Scientific work of Evgeny Primakov

In 1969, the politician received a doctorate in science, defending the scientific study "The Social and Economic Development of Egypt."


At the end of 1970, the head of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO), Nikolai Inozemtsev, invited him to take the post of his deputy. As a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences, he headed the Institute of Oriental Studies, combining this position since 1979 with teaching at the Diplomatic Academy as a professor, as well as with the post of deputy chairman of the Committee for the Protection of Peace.

Since 1985, he was the head of IMEMO for 4 years. Member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences led the study of methods for studying global political and economic issues, was engaged in the analysis of interstate conflicts and other problems in the field of international relations.

Since 1989, Primakov has become the head of the Council of the Union. In 1990-1991 he joined the Council of the country's leader Mikhail Gorbachev.


With his direct participation, the main players in the world political arena searched for ways to solve many acute problems and regulate key interactions in international politics. So, on the eve of the conflict in the Persian Gulf, he met with Saddam Hussein, with Israeli figures - Golda Meir, Yitzhak Rabin, as well as with Hosni Mubarak (Egypt), Hafez Assad (Syria) and others.

After the coup in August 1991, he was appointed first deputy chairman of the KGB. With the formation of the Russian Federation, he was elected head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, serving from 1991 to 1996.


Being an adherent of “Realpolitik”: the course led by Bismarck in his time (in which political decisions are made primarily for practical reasons, without taking into account ideological or moral aspects), the head of the Foreign Ministry advocated a multi-vector foreign policy.

He was the initiator of the creation (as opposed to the United States) of the Russia-China-India strategic triangle, simultaneously with the development of relations with the West, an opponent of NATO expansion, and a supporter of the end of the Cold War. By all accounts, he returned authority and dignity to the country's diplomatic service.


During the period 1998-1999. Primakov was appointed prime minister. At the same time, he automatically became a contender for the presidency. During the 8 months of his premiership, the market economy in the Russian Federation quickly stabilized and recovered. The resignation of Yevgeny Maksimovich from office (due to the slowdown in reforms) was perceived negatively by more than 80 percent of citizens.

Since 1999, Yevgeny Maksimovich has been a State Duma deputy, led the Fatherland - All Russia party. In 2000, 2 months before the election of the leader of the country, in a televised address, he refused to participate in the presidential race and, after the election of Vladimir Putin, became his ally and adviser.

Evgeny Primakov about Vladimir Putin

Since 2001, Primakov has been head of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for 10 years. Then he became chairman of the club of veterans, exchanging views and analysis of the political situation with the leadership of the state.

Personal life of Yevgeny Primakov

Yevgeny Primakov was married twice. He knew his first wife Laura Gvishiani (Kharadze) since childhood, they lived next door in Georgia. She was the adopted daughter of NKVD General Mikhail Maksimovich Gvishiani, and later became the sister of her son-in-law Alexei Kosygin. Together, young people went to enter Moscow. In 1951 they got married.


They had two children - first-born Alexander in 1954 and daughter Nana in 1962. The politician's share in 1981 was the hardest loss - the death of his son from a heart attack. At this time, he was on duty on Red Square during the May Day festivities. His heart was weak, and the ambulance could not arrive quickly.

In the summer of 1987, the wife of the politician also died of heart disease. She became ill in the elevator as they went down. They lived together for 37 years.


From his son, Primakov left his grandson Yevgeny Jr., who gave him 4 great-granddaughters. And daughter Nana gave birth to 2 girls Sasha and Maria.


The second wife of the politician was his attending physician Irina Borisovna, whom he married in 1994. She graduated from the Stavropol Medical Institute, worked in residency at the Fourth Main Directorate, where the leadership of the country was treated. Then she became the head of the special department of the Barvikha sanatorium, where in 1990 she met a politician. At that time, she was married to a doctor, and her daughter Anya was born in the marriage.


Yevgeny Primakov invited her to become his doctor. A year later, after the coup, Irina divorced her husband and became close to a politician. They soon got married.

The last years of the life and death of Yevgeny Primakov

Recently, the diplomat has been ranked among the so-called "seventh column" because of his statements about the need to restore relations with the West, curtail the Ukrainian campaign, implement domestic political reforms and pursue a rational foreign policy. (Recall that the “fifth column” includes the opposition public, the “sixth” - systemic liberals, the “seventh” - sane security officials who fear the aggravation of the conflict with the whole world and the negative consequences of this for the Russian Federation).

In 2011, he resigned as president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation and after that he finally left "big politics".

Yevgeny Primakov died in Moscow

In 2014, the politician underwent an operation in Milan, then he underwent treatment at the Blokhin Russian Cancer Center. In early June 2015, he got there again.

Primakov passed away at the age of 86 after a serious illness (according to various sources - a brain tumor or liver cancer) on June 26, 2015. He was buried with military honors at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow. At the civil memorial service in the Hall of Columns, the President of Russia himself spoke, and the funeral service was given by the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill.

Vladimir Putin, former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and other political figures expressed deep condolences to his relatives on the death of Primakov.

Death of Yevgeny Primakov: Vladimir Putin's speech at the farewell ceremony

Earlier, noting the outstanding services of Yevgeny Maksimovich on the eve of his 85th birthday, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called him a landmark figure in the foreign policy of the Russian Federation and expressed his conviction that his progressive system of views (thanks to which, in particular, there was a turning point in the foreign policy of the Russian Federation) in the future will be studied as a special concept - "Primakov's doctrine".

Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov is rightfully considered one of the most prominent and influential politicians of his time. Probably, no politician before or after him felt such powerful support from the people. About his outstanding talents, like politics, everything speaks biography of Evgeny Primakov, during which his career was constantly either going up or kept at the very top, regardless of who at that moment led the country as President. Perhaps this is a special talent bestowed on him by nature.

Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov was born on October 29, 1929 in Kyiv. His mother, Kirshenblat Anna Yakovlevna, worked as an obstetrician. There is very little information about the father of the politician. According to some reports, he was a military man and served in Kyiv and Tbilisi. Yevgeny Primakov did not have time to truly become a father, since he was repressed and shot as an enemy of the people only three months after the birth of his son. In this regard, shortly after the birth of Yevgeny Primakov, his mother decided to return to her native Tbilisi, where the childhood and youth of the future luminary of the Russian political arena passed. However, he went to study higher education in Moscow.

In 1953, Yevgeny Primakov received a diploma from the Arabic department of the Institute of Oriental Studies in Moscow. Three years later, he completed his postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Economics at Moscow State University. It is difficult to single out in one article all the variety of activities in which the politician proved himself talented. Therefore, we will try to determine the most significant and long-lasting of them. At the beginning of his professional biography, Yevgeny Primakov devoted a lot of time to scientific activity, but due to financial difficulties associated with the birth of his son, he was forced to stop his scientific research. Then the politician devoted a long time to journalism, working in his profile as an orientalist. And not as a theoretician from Moscow, but as a practitioner living in an eastern country - Cairo. According to some reports, during this period, Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov actively cooperated with intelligence agencies. However, this information has not been officially confirmed, of course. Nevertheless, it was during this period that the politician made many useful and influential acquaintances with the leaders of Eastern countries, such as Gaddafi and Hussein.

In the 1980s and 1990s, Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov occupied prominent posts in the USSR Academy of Sciences, and since 1991 he has been the head of the intelligence service (KGB). Subsequently, he becomes the head of the foreign intelligence service and holds this post until 1996. The work of a politician as Minister of Foreign Affairs is very indicative. In this position, he achieved many positive results for the country, developing cooperation with both the East and the West equally. For some time, Yevgeny Primakov did not have a relationship with a colleague from the United States, but after the appointment of Madeleine Albright to the post of Secretary of State, this situation changed for the better. In 1998-1999, the politician headed the government under President Yeltsin. This period was remembered by the inhabitants of the country for the many initiated corruption cases, the loudest of which was the case against Boris Berezovsky. After leaving the government, Yevgeny Primakov headed the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for two consecutive terms, and since 2012, RTI OJSC.

In the photo - Yevgeny Primakov with his first wife

Unfortunately, his political career developed against the background of personal tragedies. Primakov met his first wife, Laura Kharadze, in Tbilisi. Their wedding dates back to 1951. From this marriage, the politician has two children - son Alexander and daughter Nana. Unfortunately, Alexander Primakov died untimely in the mid-80s from a heart attack that overtook him on a bench in the Alexander Garden during a demonstration dedicated to May 1. The only consolation for the parents was the grandson Eugene, who was born in 1984. The wife of the politician passed away a year after the death of her son. The daughter of a politician, Nana, is a defectologist by profession. She has two daughters. Yevgeny Primakov met his second wife at the clinic. Irina Borisovna is the attending physician of a politician, a therapist.

In the photo - Yevgeny Primakov with his family

A terrible diagnosis - a brain tumor - took the life of Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov. It happened on June 26 this year at the Moscow Central Clinical Hospital. The politician passed away at the age of 85. Everyone who knew him closely notes that he was a man who knew how to truly appreciate and love friends. For this reason, Yevgeny Primakov always had many friends. Now they all sincerely mourn his passing.
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Primakov Evgeny Maksimovich (1929-2015) - Russian statesman and politician, economist, orientalist. In the government of the Russian Federation, he held the posts of chairman, minister of foreign affairs. He led the Central Intelligence Service in the Soviet Union, the Foreign Intelligence Service in Russia. He had academic titles of professor and doctor of economic sciences. From 2001 to 2011 he headed the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation.

Parents and family

Eugene was born in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on October 29, 1929. When the boy was three months old, his mother moved with him to Tiflis, where her relatives lived. The childhood and youthful years of the future politician passed in Georgia.

His mother, Anna Yakovlevna Primakova, born in 1896, had the profession of an obstetrician-gynecologist. In Kyiv, she worked at the Railway Hospital. When she moved with her little son to Tiflis, she got a job at a spinning and knitting mill in a antenatal clinic.

Eugene did not know his father and never saw him. In adulthood, in autobiographical materials, Primakov wrote that a father named Nemchenko left Anna Yakovlevna with a newly born son, and in 1937 he was repressed and disappeared without a trace in the Gulag. Eugene bore his mother's surname all his life.

My maternal grandmother was of Jewish origin. Her father was prosperous, owned a mill, but against her parental will, she married a simple Russian man, Yakov Primakov. They lived in Tiflis, Yakov worked in Turkey as a road construction contractor, but died at a young age in a collision with Kurdish robbers.


Eugene with mom

Childhood and youth

Yevgeny spent his childhood in a small room (14 m2) in a communal apartment without amenities. Adolescence coincided with the Great Patriotic War. But, despite the complexity of that time, the boy was always well fed, dressed and shod. Mom tried to provide everything for her only son, worked at two jobs, disappeared there all day long, and Zhenya was left to himself, wandering around the streets with the guys. Nevertheless, at school he studied well, especially he was given mathematical sciences and languages. But the guy was not fond of sports and did not differ in good health.

In 1944, having completed seven years of schooling, Primakov decided to continue his education in Baku at the Naval Preparatory School. But after two courses, for health reasons, he was expelled from the ranks of the cadets, doctors diagnosed Zhenya with the initial stage of tuberculosis. I had to return to my native school for a desk to get a certificate of secondary education.

Mom made every effort so that her son was cured of tuberculosis. In 1948, he successfully graduated from the Tbilisi secondary male school No. 14.

Thanks to a good certificate and knowledge, Primakov entered the prestigious Institute of Oriental Studies in Moscow the first time. In 1953 he received a diploma in the specialty "Country Studies in Arab Countries".

He continued his studies at Moscow State University in the graduate school of the Faculty of Economics, which he also successfully graduated in 1956. Three years later he defended his dissertation and became a candidate of economic sciences.

labor path

Primakov began his career at the Main Directorate of Radio Broadcasting to Foreign Countries in the Arabic edition. His career developed rapidly and successfully:

  • correspondent;
  • responsible editor;
  • deputy chief editor;
  • Chief Editor.

In 1962, he moved to the position of a literary employee in the Pravda newspaper, wrote reviews and articles in the department of Asian and African countries.

In 1965 he was sent to the Middle East as his own correspondent for the Pravda newspaper. For four years he lived in Cairo, during this time he met many Eastern politicians.

Primakov worked in the field of journalism until the spring of 1970, when he received an offer to take the position of first deputy director at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations. Here he devoted himself to scientific work, defended his thesis on the "Social and Economic Development of Egypt", received a doctorate in economics.

In 1977, he took the position of director of the Institute of Oriental Studies.

Politics

In the late 1980s, on the eve of the collapse of the Soviet Union, Yevgeny Maksimovich began to rapidly move up the political ladder.

He began with membership in the political bureau of the Central Committee of the CPSU. Less than a year later, he was elected to the Presidential Council, took part in resolving many serious conflicts and situations.

In 1991 (after the coup) he headed the Foreign Intelligence Council of the USSR, and then Russia.
In 1996, he was appointed to the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and achieved brilliant success in the world political arena. Thanks to Primakov, negotiations were successfully held with representatives of the countries of the Middle East. His merit in obtaining many loans totaling $ 3 billion, which at that moment was so necessary for Russia. He was the initiator of the proposal to strengthen cooperation between Russia, China and India, which later became the basis of BRICS. Many diplomats note that, while working in this post, Primakov returned dignity to the Russian diplomatic service.

In September 1998, Russian President Boris Yeltsin nominated Primakov for the post of Prime Minister of the country. The majority in the State Duma, including the opposition Communist Party, voted for him. In this position, Yevgeny Maksimovich acted as the highest professional, due to Yeltsin's illness, he independently conducted many negotiations, meetings and receptions with representatives of European countries.

The most famous event associated with Primakov has received a household name in politics - "The U-turn over the Atlantic." In March 1999, he went to the United States on an official visit. During the flight, I learned that NATO had decided to bomb Yugoslavia. He immediately gave the order to turn the letter board, which was already in the sky over the Atlantic Ocean. This event in world history was "the beginning of the revival of Russian statehood." Yevgeny Maksimovich was the first to demonstrate to the whole world that Russia would not allow anyone to talk to her from a position of strength.

In 2001, Primakov was elected President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation. He worked in this position until 2011.

For achievements in state and political activities, many written memoirs and monographs, Primakov was awarded:

  • Orders of Honor, Red Banner of Labor, Alexander Nevsky, Friendship of Peoples, "For Merit to the Fatherland" I, II, III degrees;
  • State Prize of the USSR;
  • State Prize of the Russian Federation;
  • Honorary Diploma of the Government of the Russian Federation;
  • A. M. Gorchakov Commemorative Medal of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation;
  • Big gold medal named after Lomonosov of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Personal life

In his personal life, Yevgeny Maksimovich had to endure both great happiness and unbearable grief.


Eugene, his first wife Laura and their children Sasha and Nana

Despite his fast-paced career and professional success, Primakov always put his family first. He married early, at twenty-two, while still a graduate student. His life partner was Laura Vasilievna Kharadze, born in 1930, the adopted daughter of NKVD General Mikhail Gvishiani. At the time of the wedding, Laura was a student at the Georgian Polytechnic Institute. With Evgeny Maksimovich, they became not just spouses, but real friends.

Everyone who knew Laura remembers her as a charming woman, the best mother and a magnificent, hospitable hostess. She was very friendly, cooked deliciously, played the piano superbly. The Primakovs lived interestingly and cheerfully, many guests always gathered in their house.

In 1954, the couple had a son, Alexander. He was educated at MGIMO, trained in America, became a graduate student at the Institute of Oriental Studies.

In January 1962, a girl Nana was born in the family. She received the profession of a teacher-defectologist. Works as a psychologist, married, has two daughters Alexandra (1982) and Maria (1997).

The first terrible tragedy happened to the Primakovs in 1981, when their son Sasha died of a heart attack (he suffered from myocarditis). For two years, Evgeny Maksimovich came to the cemetery in the morning, sat on the grave, and only after that he went to work. His wife, daughter and grandchildren helped him survive.


Yevgeny Primakov with his grandson journalist Yevgeny Sandro

In 1987, grief repeated itself, again a terrible myocarditis took away a loved one from Primakov - this time his wife Laura. Work helped to overcome grief. Again, the daughter, son-in-law, granddaughter Sashenka and grandson Zhenya (son of Alexander) were nearby. Evgeny followed in the footsteps of his grandfather and father, became a journalist, an orientalist, and hosts the International Review program on the Rossiya-24 television channel (known to viewers under the pseudonym Evgeny Sandro).

Seven years after Laura left, Yevgeny Maksimovich married a second time to the therapist Irina Borisovna Bokareva. She was his attending physician, and became a reliable support, they went hand in hand together until the death of the politician.

Illness and death

In 2014, Primakov was diagnosed with liver cancer and underwent surgery in Milan. He underwent further treatment at the Blokhin Russian Cancer Center.
On June 26, 2015, the politician's heart stopped, he was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery.

Despite the strict appearance, in life Yevgeny Maksimovich was a cheerful, sincere and cheerful person, wrote lyrical poems, knew many anecdotes and was very fond of feasts. All his friends remarked that it was rare in life to come across an example of such comradely fidelity.

The ex-Prime Minister of Russia hid his real father all his life

Only in his last autobiographical book did Evgeny PRIMAKOV shed light on his childhood. The former politician and intelligence officer calls a certain NEMCHENKO the father. Before that, other surnames were found in various sources - KIRSHENBLAT and BUKHARIN. Express Gazeta conducted its own investigation.

In his memoirs, Yevgeny Primakov wrote: “My father's surname is Nemchenko - my mother told me about it. I never saw him. They parted ways with their mother, in 1937 he was shot. From birth, I bore my mother's surname - Primakov.
In Tbilisi, where Yevgeny Maksimovich partially spent his childhood, his distant relatives and friends remained. It was they who told the truth about the "secret father" of the former prime minister and head of foreign intelligence.

committed suicide

In the birth certificate in the column "Paternity" Primakov has a dash. According to relatives, Evgeny Maksimovich's mother, Anna Yakovlevna, married engineer Maxim Rosenberg in her youth, so her son's patronymic is Maksimovich. Primakov, however, did not mention this name in his memoirs.
“Because of this dash, many versions have appeared,” says Tamara Chelidze, an elderly Tbilisi family friend. - In one book they wrote that Yevgeny Maksimovich was the son of Bukharin. This was assumed after Primakov said that his biological father was shot in 1937. Some external similarity of both confirmed this version. However, the same complete nonsense version that his father is a doctor David Kirshenblat.
The great-granddaughter of Kirshenblat, whose mother grew up with Eugene, shared her memories.
“Primakov is his mother's surname,” says Karina. - Evgeny Maksimovich writes everywhere that her mother's name was Anna Yakovlevna, but her relatives called her Hanoi. And his grandmother on the mother's side was called Berta Abramovna. Khana was a well-known gynecologist in Tbilisi. Evgeny Maksimovich also changed his place of birth for some reason: he was born not in Kyiv, but in Moscow.
According to relatives, Kirshenblat was still related to Yevgeny. He lost his wife early and married the governess of his two children, Faina, who had a sister, Khana, Primakov's mother. Since Zhenya's mother had only an 11-meter room in a communal apartment, he grew up in his aunt's house.

Kirshenblat treated Zhenya like his own, Karina assures. - And the mother's husband, Maxim Rosenberg, Evgeny Maksimovich does not mention for certain reasons. The fact is that Khana and Maxim did not have children for a long time. And she, as her mother said, had an affair with another man. When Zhenya was nine months old, Rosenberg committed suicide. The tragedy happened during a family dinner: Khana and Maxim had a fight, the husband got up from the table, ran down the corridor and jumped out of the window. Kirshenblat was just returning home and found the body of Maxim on the street: he died in his arms. Khan after the death of Maxim never married again. But she was a bright woman ...

The "Jewish trace" pursued Primakov. During the perestroika years, denunciations were written against him more than once. So, at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Yevgeny Maksimovich was accused of involvement in the Zionist conspiracy. “Anti-Semitism has always been a tool for persecution of stupid party officials,” wrote Yevgeny Maksimovich. - Both chauvinism and nationalism have always been alien to me. Even today I do not believe that God chose any nation to the detriment of others. He chose us all, whom He created in His own image and likeness ... "
About relatives who emigrated to Israel, Yevgeny Maksimovich did not spread, but after the end of his political career he visited and supported.

Beal of Laura's fans

Primakov met his first wife in Tbilisi. Laura grew up in the family of her father's sister, opera singer Nadezhda Kharadze, and her husband, conductor Alexis Dimitriadi, since her parents were shot.
- At the age of 14, Zhenya entered the Baku Naval School, but fell ill and returned to Tbilisi, - said Laura's cousin, professor at the Conservatory Nana Dimitriadi. That's why he graduated from high school. And when he entered the Institute of Oriental Languages ​​at Moscow State University, everyone was perplexed. From Moscow, he often came to Tbilisi, where he still had friends. Zhenya was familiar with Laura, and became close on vacation in Gagra. They were 19 then. He often fought because of Laura. Once my mother could not stand it and said: “Either you get married, or you, Zhenya, leave.”
Laura was charming, played the piano beautifully, could turn anyone's head. She then left the Tbilisi Polytechnic University, where she studied at the Faculty of Chemistry, transferred to the Institute. Mendeleev and left for Moscow. They celebrated the wedding in Moscow, in a narrow circle. They lived modestly with Zhenya: they rented a corner in the janitor's room. When the first-born son Sasha was born, he was brought to his grandmother - Anna Yakovlevna ...
Laura has always been by Zhenya's side. I went with my beloved to Egypt, where he was sent as a correspondent. Despite the congenital heart disease and the prohibition of doctors to give birth to a second child, after returning from Egypt, she made her husband happy with her daughter Nana.
When Boris Yeltsin dismissed Primakov in 1999, eight months after Primakov's appointment as prime minister, the politician went to the hockey match as if nothing had happened. But family is another matter. He did not experience a single political situation as much as the death of his son.

Alexander died at the age of 26, - recalls Nana Dimitriadi. - Handsome, graduated from MGIMO, completed an internship in the USA. But during the May Day demonstration, he became ill ... When they did an autopsy, it turned out that the guy had suffered two micro-infarcts. Six months before that, a dark story happened in Moscow. He went out with a friend to smoke, and he was beaten. Sasha then had to restore his nose ...

Another unpleasant story that happened to Sasha is the loss of his dissertation. It is possible that these events caused heart problems.
Nana, like her parents, was very upset by the death of her brother. In his honor, she named her eldest daughter Alexandra.
- Zhenya then took to drink, - says a friend of the Primakov family - Tamara Chelidze. - I spent long hours every day at the Kuntsevo cemetery. Grief brought him even closer to his friend, director Georgy Danelia, whose son Nikolai died almost at the same time under strange circumstances. Their sons knew each other, and they are buried in the same cemetery...
Granddaughter Sasha became a translator and photographer, and then started breeding dachshunds. She never boasted of her grandfather: she dressed simply, almost never put on makeup. She married a good intelligent boy - Anton Lenin.
“Grandfather spoiled his granddaughter Sasha, but not so much,” said Karina, a distant relative of the Primakovs. - But the grandson Evgeny, who was born from Sasha's son (television journalist Evgeny Sandro. - N.M.), bought several apartments. When the grandson got divorced, the apartment remained with his wife, and a new one was bought for him.

daughter blessed

Distant relatives of the Primakovs remember their first wife, Laura, as a hospitable woman who was fond of antiques and theater.
“She drove an old Zaporozhets and did not want to get into an expensive car,” said her Tbilisi friend Sofiko. - Attended all general premieres. She died when she and her husband were going to go to the concert of Gennady Khazanov. A heart. She died six years after the death of her son, in 1986. At the Kuntsevsky cemetery, Evgeny then bought four places at once. He always said that he wanted to be buried next to his son and wife. We were surprised that the second wife, Irina, recently agreed to be buried at Novodevichy. Perhaps the authorities decided so ...
After Laura's death, many wanted to marry him, but for a long time nothing worked, until a young blue-eyed Irina appeared in his life - his personal doctor. Because of a new love, she divorced her husband. Once Irina admitted: “He is so beautifully caring! Now they can't do that." And what poems he dedicated to her! Irina and Evgeny Maksimovich asked for blessings from Nana. She was friends with Primakov's daughter, and she was not against it. When the relatives got to know the new wife closer, they accepted her into the family. Interestingly, the daughter of Irina from her first marriage, Anna, took the name of Primakov.
In the event that he did not leave a will, not only the widow, children from two marriages, grandchildren, but also illegitimate offspring can claim the inheritance of Yevgeny Primakov.
- Primakov has an illegitimate daughter Anya, he officially introduced her at one of his anniversaries. He helped Anya all her life. She looks like the daughter of Evgeny Maksimovich - Nana, - Karina shared.

AND THIS IS ALL WITH HIM

Remembering Yevgeny PRIMAKOV, journalists mainly noted two of his achievements. A sensational U-turn over the Atlantic on March 24, 1999 (when the NATO fascists bombed peaceful Yugoslav cities) and the salvation of Russian foreign intelligence. In the fateful 1991, Primakov saved her from large-scale purges. But for some reason not a single media outlet appreciated Yevgeny Maksimovich's initiatives as prime minister. Our columnist Elena KREMENTSOVA tried to remember what Primakov managed to do as head of government in just 8 months, when the country, after the 1998 default, needed emergency resuscitation. There were many merits, and perhaps the most important are these:

* Prevented a repeat of the bloody October 1993. The deputies demanded Yeltsin's resignation and began the impeachment procedure. There was a threat of dissolution of parliament or abandonment of market relations. Primakov relieved the tension between the president, the liberal government and the State Duma through compromises and calmed the people down.
* He did not succumb to the pressure of the governors and the military-industrial complex, who demanded money from the government, and refused to turn on the printing press, preventing inflation from spinning up.
* He forbade issuing loans to anyone who received them and did not return them. And kept the ruble from falling further.
* He proved that the state has enough money and there is no need to increase debts. His government, for the first time since the collapse of the USSR, drew up an honest budget in which revenues exceeded expenditures.
* Although he carried out the devaluation of the ruble, he immediately took a number of tax measures, from which the countryside and small towns of Russia benefited, where the remnants of existing production were concentrated.
* For the first time since August 1991, salaries and pensions were paid on time.
* Restored the work of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Russia, which, after eight years of Yeltsin's reforms, fell into extreme decline and served the "opportunistic political preferences" of the rarely sober head of state and his team.
* He insisted on the development of Soviet Islamic studies and the expansion of domestic peaceful Islam to the countries of the Arab world. And in every possible way promoted the interests of our country in the Middle East.
For this alone, Yevgeny Maksimovich deserved a monument during his lifetime.

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In 1975, Primakov brought billionaire David Rockefeller to Tbilisi. And I decided to invite him to visit relatives. Calling his mother-in-law, Evgeny Maksimovich said: "We'll drop by in the evening!" The woman began to panic: they put the apartment in order in a fire order, set the table, but they did not manage to repair the entrance. Then the guards, who arrived ahead of time, got out of the situation: they turned off the light in the entrance so that the walls could not be seen. Assessing the set table, Rockefeller went to a portrait of Ernest Hemingway hanging on the wall. Pushing the picture aside, he saw a faded spot on the wallpaper: “So it really hung ...”

Bear in mind
CPSU member Yevgeny Primakov was never a religious person, but at the end of his life he came to God and was baptized.

Primakov loved tricks

The politician showed children circus tricks

In 2000, Yevgeny Maksimovich stayed with the politician Stepan Sitaryan in Yerevan, - businessman Narine Davtyan said. - Stepan Sitaryan was my relative. Yevgeny Primakov saw that my 6-year-old son had strabismus. He immediately called the eye doctor Svyatoslav Fedorov, and instructed to immediately begin treatment. Doctors began to treat their son on time according to the new methods of that time, and thanks to this, they managed to avoid surgery. He loved children: he immediately began to show my children different tricks: circus tricks with falling coins from the sleeves. My daughter, who is fond of painting, then painted a portrait: Primakov is in a turban, and coins are falling from his sleeve. We solemnly presented it to him.

Yevgeny Primakov was an outstanding political figure in the USSR and the Russian Federation in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the head of Russian intelligence, led the Council of the Union of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

During the presidency of B.N. Yeltsin was the prime minister of the country's government. He was a well-known orientalist and academician.

He was a world-class figure who enjoyed great respect at home and abroad. He was distinguished by steadfastness and pragmatism in protecting the interests of his homeland.

Date of birth of Evgeny Primakov

Born on October 29, 1929 in Kyiv.

The childhood of Evgeny Primakov

After the birth of Eugene, the mother moved to relatives in Tiflis, where the childhood and youth of the future politician spent in the grandmother's house.

Evgeny Primakov with his mother photo

After graduating from seven classes of the school, he became a cadet (1944) of the Baku Naval Preparatory School, where he managed to do practice on a training ship. However, two years later, E. Primakov was expelled from the school for health reasons in connection with the identification of signs of tuberculosis.

He continued his studies at a secondary school, where teachers singled out his mathematical abilities and a penchant for learning foreign languages. These qualities allowed him in 1948, after graduating from school, to enter the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies.

Primakov's parents

The future politician was brought up mainly by his mother Anna Yakovlevna, who, after the birth of a child, moved to her mother in the capital of Georgia. She was an obstetrician-gynecologist at the Transcaucasian Railway Hospital. Then she worked in the antenatal clinic of a knitwear factory. His grandmother helped look after the boy.

As follows from the memoirs of Yevgeny Maksimovich himself, he did not see his father, there is almost no information about him, presumably he was arrested in 1937 and his trace disappears in the gulag. Subsequently, Primakov's mother married a general of the Georgian NKVD. She died in 1972.

Primakov's biography

In 1953, he received a diploma in Arab countries and studied at the graduate school of the Faculty of Economics of Lomonosov Moscow State University. A young talented scientist was noticed and invited to work in the State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting of the USSR. Here he worked as a correspondent, deputy editor-in-chief and editor-in-chief, organized broadcasting to the countries of the Arab world.

Evgeny Primakov photo

In the 60s of the last century, he worked in the Pravda newspaper, was his own correspondent for this publication in the Middle East. Here he became intimately acquainted with the most prominent representatives of the political elites of the region. Exploring the economic and political problems of the Arab countries, he became a candidate of economic sciences in 1959, defending a dissertation on the export of capital to these countries.

Ten years later he received a doctorate in science for his study of the social and economic development of Egypt. He directed academic institutes of oriental studies, world economy and international relations. He was an academician of the Union Academy of Sciences, a professor at the academy for the training of diplomatic personnel. In the 1980s, he began to actively engage in political activities.

He was elected a People's Deputy of the USSR, Chairman of the Council of the USSR Union, a member of the Presidential Council and the Security Council of the USSR. In September 1991, he moved to work as the first deputy chairman of the USSR State Security Committee. From the end of 1991 to January 1996, he headed the intelligence services of the Union and Russia's foreign intelligence. In January 1996, he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. He worked in this position until September 1998.

As the head of the country's foreign policy department, he managed to carry out some reforms that strengthened the diplomatic position of the state.

Prime Minister Primakov, reforms

In September 1998, the State Duma of the Russian Federation approved Primakov E.M. Prime Minister of Russia. In his speeches after his appointment, he indicated his commitment to the ongoing reforms in the country. This was manifested by active work to attract foreign investment to develop the economy and stabilize the social situation.

In a short period as prime minister, Primakov, according to public opinion polls, managed to achieve stabilization in the economy and social development. The authority of Russia in the world, its political and economic ties with other states have been strengthened.

In this, the government began to play an increasingly important role. However, due to concerns about the excessive independence of the head of government, his lack of loyalty to President B.N. Yeltsin, Primakov E.M. was relieved of his post due to the slowdown in reforms and the need to give them a new impetus. According to estimates of that time, the vast majority of the population negatively perceived such a decision.

Family of Evgeny Primakov

Evgeny Maksimovich married Laura Kharadze in 1951. In 1954, the son Alexander was born. In 1962, a daughter, Nana, was born. Wife died in 1987, son died in 1981. There are grandchildren.

Cause and date of Primakov's death, where he is buried

E. M. Primakov suffered from liver cancer for a long time. Operations and treatment by the best specialists in the country and abroad did not give any result. He died on June 26, 2015. He was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow. He was given military honors. On his last journey, he was escorted by the highest figures of the state and the clergy. The funeral ceremony was broadcast by central television.

Awards and prizes of Yevgeny Primakov

Orders - Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1975), Order of Friendship of Peoples (1979), Order of the Badge of Honor (1985), Order of Merit for the Fatherland III degree (1995), Order of Merit for the Fatherland II degree (1998), Order of Merit for Fatherland of the 1st degree (2009), etc. Awarded with many foreign orders and medals.

Laureate of the Nasser Prize (1974), Laureate of the State Prize (1980), Laureate of the Avicenna Prize (1983), Laureate of the Golden Aquarius Prize (2003), etc.

  • With the name of E.M. Primakov is connected with an episode when in March 1999, on his way to America on an official visit, he, having learned about the NATO decision to bomb Yugoslavia, ordered the plane to turn around over the Atlantic Ocean and return to Moscow. Political scientists note that this was the first time it was demonstrated to the world that Russia does not tolerate talk from a position of strength and is reviving its status as a great power.
  • According to authoritative British publications, during a business trip to the Middle East, Primakov was more involved in collecting intelligence information for the country's top leadership. At that time he was a career intelligence officer with the call sign "Maxim".
  • Many of his scientific and journalistic works have been repeatedly translated into English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Greek, Italian, Chinese, German, French, Japanese and other languages ​​and reprinted abroad.
  • In August 1991 Primakov E.M. along with other politicians supported Gorbachev and M.S. and opposed the GKChP.
  • When appointed to a position in the KGB of the USSR, he refused the rank of general, becoming the first civilian head of intelligence in the history of the country.